Presentation

What are the issues, the levers and the consequences of such a change of scale of organic agriculture throughout the whole agri-food chain?

The metaprogram is based on:

• An approach including the whole agri-food system.
• Interdisciplinary scientific communities.
• INRAE experimental facilities that are partly or completely converted to organic agriculture.
• Close interactions with partners and stakeholders.

The aim is to develop proposals, scientifically substantiated, to anticipate the consequences and accompany the development of organic agri-food systems.

Priority 1. Conditions for a large-scale transition and its support measures

• Co-design of diversified and multi-performant systems
• Impact evaluation and trajectory analysis of different organic agriculture development scenarios
• Collective dynamics and individual commitments for radical transitions
• Public actions and market organization

Priority 2. Resources to be implemented for sufficient and sustainable production

• Loop of biogeochemical cycles and soil functionality
• Plant and animal genetic resources
• Feed resources for animals
• Natural resources for animal and plant health
• Know-how and Work

Priority 3. Processing, conservation, and product qualities

• Development of biocompatible conservation and processing techniques
• Management of the heterogeneity and the variability of raw materials in organic agriculture
• Impacts on product qualities, environmental and human health

Priority 4. Coexistence of production systems

• Managing the diversity of production models
• Access to resources (especially soil, water and work)
• Strategies and consequences on organic markets